Category: Volume 1, Issue 2 – Spring 2011 – Fiction

Winner of the Weaver’s Knot Award for Fiction The girl lived in a cottage where she was always surrounded by soft innocent colors, and only had her thoughts to keep her company. The cottage hid in a open meadow of a forest that sat on top of a mountain. She was in a lazy daze [...]

Winner of the RCCC Creative Writing Awards in Fiction She gripped the umbrella handle tighter than necessary, as raindrops danced their way down its panels, only to dangle and fall off the edge into the ground; the one place where we would all end up eventually. She looked around at the small, mourning crowd that [...]

It had all happened in an instant. I had literally just put my head into the crook of my arm to rest my eyes for a minute, but when I opened them I wasn’t in front of my computer desk, studying late into the night and trying to cram for my biology final tomorrow. Instead, [...]

Huddled in the dark hull of the rocking ship, the stench of sweat and human feces clogged Jerome’s nose. He rolled slightly to his left, as far as his confined space would allow, and peered out of the small crack in the side of the ship. His gaze was greeted by a desert of shimmering [...]